Sunday, October 26, 2008

Waiting For Grandparentinghood

Becoming a grandparent inexpensive auto insurance a long time coming. I was well past 50 when this life-changing event occurred. I had begun to resign myself to the fact that structured settlement protection act would not happen to me. After all my daughter was over thirty before she got married Risperdol she had announced some time before that babies were not on her agenda.

Therefore, it was with great joy and surprise when the announcement was made that a new member of the family was on the way. Now I had nine months to fantasise and imagine what he or she would be like. My knitting needles were immediately retrieved from their attic residence and employed in producing numerous matinee jackets, booties, hats, and gloves which was needed for a winter baby. My only regret was that debt consolidation I was still employed full time I would not be able to spend as much support time with her as I would have liked.

Welcome to my grand daughter

At last the wait was over. A phone call had me rushing in a taxi to her side with an agonisingly slow journey to the hospital where I was privileged to be present at the birth because it was so quick the midwife was taken by surprise. I now had a beautiful granddaughter. This was not a biased grandma talking, she was beautiful, and still is. I spent the first night of her life with her mother, father and herself in the birthing room.

Since that momentous day, I now have two more grandchildren, another girl and a boy. It is greatly educational when we get together. The girls are always eager to tell us what they have been doing since we last met, whether it's traveling, visiting their friends, or telling us what they do at school - there is always something new for us to learn from them about their views on what they have experienced and about their individual personalities.

Enjoying life through their eyes Their obvious pleasure at seeing us whenever we arrive always brings a lump to our throat. My babysitting duties are frequent. Nana is for reading stories - or being read to - and granddad is for climbing over, wrestling with, making up silly games and trying to outwit him with whatever way they can devise.

With our grandson - at two years old it is too early to define his character accurately as yet. He sees his sisters as one entity rather than two separate people and spends most of his time trying to emulate everything they do. It is interesting to compare his behaviour to that of the girls at his age.

So for those of you who are waiting for this special event in your life, it is an awesome experience - and like childbirth, difficult to explain to someone who has not experienced it as yet. But I can truthfully say that the pleasure, enjoyment, and benefits are all well worth waiting for.

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